boxcar base letterpress starter packs
You supply the press. We’ll supply the rest. Here’s everything you need to get started in one discounted package.
Each starter pack includes these fundamentals:
- your very own Boxcar Base sized to your press
- Printing Digital Type on the Flatbed Cylinder Press, 3rd edition
- the Boxcar Roller Gauge (essential for setting roller height)
- Boxcar Institute Training Series (BITS): 20 minutes of letterpress instructions on DVD
- Van Son ultimate black ink (rubber-based, 1 lb can). If black was good enough for Gutenberg, it’s good enough for you!
- the official Boxcar printing apron, because we care about how you look
Choose your starter based on your press:
- 6 x 9 chase starter pack for various lever presses (Base size: 4.5 x 7.5 Deep Relief Boxcar Base)
- Pilot starter pack (Base size: 5 x 8.5 Deep Relief Boxcar Base)
- Heidelberg Windmill starter pack (Base size: 9 x 12 Standard Boxcar Base)
- 10x15 chase starter pack for C&P's, Klugies, Golding, etc. (Base size: 9x12 Deep Relief Boxcar Base)
- Vandercook starter pack (Base size: 13 x 19 Standard Boxcar Base)